Being let in on a secret is always very exciting, particularly when what is revealed is something we thought we had already understood. It is disconcerting, not because certainties are overturned, but because places of the mind and of the heart, until then closed off, become accessible. This is how one felt upon seeing Thomas Schütte’s show. In fact, Schütte creates a connection between deeply submerged images and the birth of a new vision. The secret that he reveals is about the birth of subjective awareness that occurs in the exchange between what has already become conscious and what needs